it's all but impossible to email most people any more

This does not match my experience at all. Everyone has an email address, if you want to contact someone it's the one thing you can ask for that you can be sure will work. Sure, they may email you back to say that they prefer to have chatty conversations on facebook.

I guess searches for "Tiananmen square protests" are censored in your country too.

I remember the late 90s. My parents unknowingly bought a K6-2 and didn't realize for years that it wasn't an Intel. Nobody was aware of the competition, but that didn't stop them from buying AMD-powered computers.

We now have state inspectors go through out trash cans looking for light bulbs.

Considering the mercury in the common CFL light bulbs these days, how you object to this? Do you really want to get mercury poisoning by letting improperly disposed bulbs seep into the environment?

India has a 74% literacy rate and the average Indian spends 5 years in school (source: http://www.thehindubusinesslin... ). That's not something for Americans to envy. You only meet the lucky few Indians who got the very best education.

What carrier changes you for 911 phone calls? You don't even need a SIM card to make a 911 call.

Perhaps you have poor vision? I saw one tonight accidentally while taking the garbage out.

Playing with sick people's fluids is the job description of a doctor or nurse.

There's an industry that exploits children in order to sell to a market of people who want to view child porn. American helicopters are not shooting kids in Iraq with the goal of selling the video of it for profit. If they were regularly doing so, then you can bet viewing videos of shooting kids in Iraq would also be illegal.

Back during the industrial revolution, 80 hour work weeks and child labor were the norm. All those children lost their jobs permanently, and adults had their hours cut in half. How horribly it would be if our hours were cut further and we were forced to enjoy ourselves!

Where did anybody generalize to make any sort of claim that many or most panhandlers are wealthy?

People who lived in mud huts or worse were responsible for most of the megafauna extinctions, not technology. Humans who can't see or don't consider the consequences of their actions are destructive with or without advanced tech.

If most domain owners were technical people, godaddy wouldn't exist.

Dormant doesn't have to mean something that will awake, but sure there's probably another word that's less open to misinterpretation. The moon isn't exactly an inert rock on the inside though, it still has magma: http://www.universetoday.com/9...

Odd that anyone hasn't heard since it's far from news, but "moon volcanoes" is easily googled for thousands of reference to extinct volcanoes known to be active until at least a billion years ago. Discussions of a couple of specific types of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... and http://www.space.com/12419-moo...